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Definition of Contortionists
1. contortionist [n] - See also: contortionist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contortionists
Literary usage of Contortionists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"We can make no greater mistake than to suppose that the reason we do not understand
these rhetorical contortionists is because they are so subtle and ..."
2. Young Americans in Japan by Edward Greey (1881)
"ACROBATS AND contortionists. Mrs. Jewett and her daughter rode on with the ladies
of their host's family, and left the gentlemen to watch the athletes. ..."
3. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1900)
"The class of people commonly known as contortionists by the laxity of their ...
Plate 6 represents two well-known contortionists in their favorite feats. ..."
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